Posted on October 27, 2003

• This past couple of days have been pretty crazy around here. We live in northern San Diego county and, while there haven’t been directly threatened yet, the fires are close enough that we are packed and ready to go if the need arises. We live in an extremely dangerous area with only one way out, so yesterday and today I’ve had one eye on the TV news and one out the window looking for smoke.

  We’re ok (for now) but a lot of people weren’t so lucky. If you would like to help out with relief efforts, the San Diego Red Cross is accepting donations at SDARC.org. Thanks!

• I’ve added a new wallpaper, “The Source“, to the gallery this evening. I’d been working on it for a few days already when the firestorm started and had hoped to have it ready last night. I still have some tinkering that I might do with it, but I think it’s ready to share. Feel free to send your comments.

Posted on October 17, 2003

• I received my copy of “Vue d’Esprit Professional” earlier this week and immediately set seeing what it could do. Unfortunately, the software turned out to be even buggier than World Builder (which is saying a lot). Hopefully they will get the bugs ironed out before too long and I can try again. I’m shelving it for now.

  I did manage to put together a nice little Autumn scene and I’ve posted it up for you. It’s called “Autumnal” and it’s available on the New Images page. Hope you like it.

• I’ve added a 16×9 verison of “Awakening” to the widescreen collection.

Posted on October 12, 2003

• I’ve added the dual-monitor version of “Once Upon a Time” that I mentioned last week. I’m sorry it took so long, but adding the lighting effects really upped the render time considerably. Hopefully I can have a dual-screen Twilight render up in another week or so. Hope you like it!

Posted on October 10, 2003

• If you were around last year, you might remember that Jessie and I were married on October 12th. I essentially took last October off so I could help her set everything up, have the wedding, and then spend some quality time on the beach. We had a great time, but one of the unfortunate consequences was that I was unable to do any Halloween images last year.

  So October has rolled around again and the candy is on the store shelves. Time for some spooky desktops.

  My newest wallpaper, “Awakening“, is now up for your review. Hope you like it. You can check out the rest of my Halloween images by using my search engine.

Posted on October 6, 2003

• A few items to report today. First, I’ve added 1280 x 1024 renders to the 2001 and 2000 galleries. Second, “Once Upon a Time” (the day version) is now available as a poster. I’ll have to do a little tweaking before the twilight version is ready. You might also be interested to know that Zazzle now offers framing and matting options so your prints can arrive ready to hang.

  Third, I have a dual-screen version of “Once Upon a Time” rendering and I think you dual-head folks will really enjoy it. It will be done in a few days (I hope).

  Lastly, I just received my copy of “3D World” magazine in the mail and saw that the full version of World Builder 2.3 is available on the included CDROM. It’s the same program I used to create “Valley 2000”, “Glenwood”, “Sunset Fog” and “Song of the Sky” (and many others). I’m not sure what the magazine goes for on the newstand (over $10 I think) but considering that I paid over $900 for my copy of World Builder, it’s a pretty good deal. The issue features “Finding Nemo” on the front cover and should be on newstands soon. Happy Rendering!

• Go Cubs!!